Art Update

Tami Travels!

Reading List

WIP

Drafting

Untitled Fantasy (Demons)

Outline

This Ship of War (An Act of Piracy 3)

Sunskimmer (Queenships 2)

Public Post!

Finally some news you art-tier mem­bers are going to be thrilled to hear! I have start­ed to make reg­u­lar, sched­uled art time a pri­or­i­ty in my week, which means both new art to show you and the pos­si­bil­i­ty of prints or oth­er merch.

I have a great desk­top and touch­screen mon­i­tor (A Cintiq by Wacom). Two or three years ago I tried to start stream­ing my art on twitch (Before they had a cre­ative chan­nel) to get into more of a habit/gather a fol­low­ing. I didn’t have a clue what I was doing, but I still man­aged to put some­thing func­tion­al togeth­er. I prob­a­bly last­ed a week.

It’s time to try again. Setup is FAR eas­i­er now than I was back then, it prob­a­bly took me 15 min­utes to get up and run­ning, but now there are a thou­sand small details you can manip­u­late to give your view­ers par­tic­i­pa­tion/watch-your-stream incen­tives. I’m pri­mar­i­ly going to use it as a study sched­ule, but I plan on tak­ing a lim­it­ed num­ber of com­mis­sions so I can add that rev­enue-stream to my list of things. From there I’ll prob­a­bly add prints and/or merch via pod ser­vices like red­bub­ble or some­thing. If you have a favorite pod site you like to use, let me know!

I’ve got the stream up and run­ning if any­one wants to check it out: www.twitch.tv/tamiveldura and when I’m not stream­ing I have a list of peo­ple that are host­ed on my chan­nel auto­mat­i­cal­ly, so there is a LOT of con­tent run­ning there with­out me need­ing to do any­thing addi­tion­al. So far I’ve found two ceram­ic artists (!) and more than a few dig­i­tal artists to fol­low. I’m super excit­ed about find­ing quite a few peo­ple who do pub­lic study/critique ses­sions so I’m fig­ur­ing out when they do that.

The sched­ule so far is based around the cri­tique that oth­er artists are doing. So Artist1 does a pub­lic study at 8pm on Mondays which means I can stream at 8pm for an hour on mon­day fol­low­ing the study and then sub­mit my results in that artists’s dis­cord for cri­tique. While Artist 2 does a pub­lic study on Wednesdays, but pro­vides the pho­tos for every­one on the dis­cord. You have a week to do the study, then she’ll do a pub­lic cri­tique, which then gives you a week to adjust the paint­ing and resub­mit for fol­low up. As I fig­ure out these artists sched­ules and mine, I’ll come up with a more sta­ble pat­tern of prac­tice.

I still have a writ­ing sched­ule to fol­low, of course, and the ceram­ic work I’m doing. Plus any edits or oth­er work I take on. So the painting/study sched­ule needs to slot into gaps, not knock oth­er things off my plate. We’ll see how that goes. I’ll prob­a­bly fill up some hours sat­ur­day, sun­day, mon­day, tues­day since those are my least packed days right now.